Breaking the ‘ayuda’ mentality
Doing so would be like giving lawmakers a boulder to hit their heads. Perhaps the next best thing to do is for voters to reject candidates who promote the "ayuda" mentality and use it for political advantage.
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FACT CHECK: Desisyon ni Marcos sa sexuality education bill nakabase sa maling impormasyon
Mali si Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa nilalaman ng comprehensive sexuality education sa Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Bill sa Senado.
Where’s the ‘missing’ 338 kg of shabu in P6.7B haul?
A CCTV footage showed three police operatives loading 19 pieces of luggage into a white sedan parked near the WPD lending office on Jose Abad Santos Avenue. The PDEG chief estimated the stolen volume at around 380 kg. Only two pieces of luggage with 42 kg were recovered one week after the bungled operation.
Duterte-gullible Davao City and the Numbeo deception
What should a local media do when reporting about Numbeo’s Davao City landing in third place? It can certainly report, but it must temper it necessarily with what Numbeo is and how its crowd sourcing works. It goes without saying that mass media like community newspapers have the capacity to enable its audience to make rational decisions.
FACT SHEET: What we know about the HMPV virus
HMPV is a common respiratory virus that circulates in many countries from winter through spring. It is the sixth most common cause of influenza-like illness in the Philippines.
FACT CHECK: Abines wrongly claims 2025 budget law has blank spaces
Abines falsely claims parts of 2025 budget were left blank. The pages he showed were not in the GAA but in the bicameral committee report.
‘Ayuda’ dole outs defy 2013 SC ruling vs ‘pork’
Cuts made by Congress in the annual budget in the last three years had reached P1.042 trillion, broken down into: P219 billion in the 2013 GAA, P449.5 billion in 2024 and P373 billion in 2025.
FACT SHEET: What’s up with the delays in the controversial Maharlika Fund?
Maharlika fund faces delays in first investment, safeguards in IRR weakened
FACT CHECK: Rodriguez misstates involvement in 2022 sugar fiasco
Former executive secretary Vic Rodriguez claimed with no basis that he ordered the seizure of illegally imported sugar in 2022.
The 2024 Dahas Report: More Reported Drug-Related Killings in 2024 than in 2023
Since the Dahas Project started its weekly online monitoring in 2021, this is the first time that more killings were attributed to unidentified assailants than to state agents.
